maybe my brian is memory holed but twitter used to not require an account which made the whole public square gov thing very valid even if u were banned for political reasons u could still read and be informed.
x requiring an account to even read content from gov officials has to be a massive insane deal breaker for anything gov official.
i hate x, not because of elon but because it is still just twitter where the format breeds the most disgusting human interactions possible. Everyone is performative in every interaction which leads to a net negative. Instragram and meta cannot even claim such a divisive crown although they win on other fronts.
No, bluesky is just yet another twitter with the same fundamental problem because the format is the issue not the politics. At least on bs i can generally read without logging in tho so it wins for me.
RTS games are a niche now so this makes total sense. No one has time for them esp on competitive scene where the older games perfectly capture what audience exists.
Games these days need to have an almost hard cap on a “round” or session wrt to time. I need to know that the game will be over within x minutes’ish. The attention span is small. Almost all indie games have adopted this structure.
What fans really want is NOT another competitive rts but more campaigns and coop. Neither will convinced execs to dump cash into it unless it is a live service game with dlcs. Sc2 did this for a bit with a coop mode that did ok but not ok enough to continue.
There must be more money in competitive play though. Not as much recently, but I remember a trend some years back of throwing even a large casual player base under the bus to cater to the competitive multiplayer scene.
One of the theories for part of the Civ6 flop is that they wanted to cater to multiplayer scenes which have different concerns from a casual single player. Removing hotseat is extremely egregious though and the one reason I’ve refused to give the game a chance. I’d be willing to look past the “Humankind ripoff lol” memes if I could play with my gf.
Unpopular opinion i am sure but i stopped playing Nintendo games years ago. All their main games are so derivative of their source mechanics that I get bored 10 minutes past the loading screen. At this point mariocart, mario world xxxi, zelda remake of a remake, they all feel like fifa or cod to me albeit far more polished.
Nintendo as a company is also extremely odious but that is a given of all companies these days so i give em a pass.
And, breath of the wild etc mechanics are almost all pulled directly from other open world games although they were a first for nintendo.
This is only true in America. American culture has become one where your worth as a person is based on money. If someone has alot of money, they must be better, smarter, etc, than everyone else who has less.
I dont think this holds as strongly in other countries. Other countries do not have the religious like worship of money that is the usa. Having a Phd is seen as higher status than making millions on legal scamming.
My Indian coworkers talk more about people in their country helping other than who is richest in India where the us folks talk about nothing but stonks and what car they will buy next.
You really think China and India are full of people who want to do good for society instead of wishing to get rich at any cost? I think their human rights record and treatment of the less privileged point at a very different direction.
A part that rubs people wrong is that they have no choice and competition doesnt exist outside the vc ecosystem. VC can subsidize a non profitable model for a decade often with an ipo that isnt profitable for another decade of net zero value creation. It isnt capitalism.
It is a pay to play game where if you are not in the club, you have little chance of playing let alone winning.
The cherry on top is the culture of cheating, lying, stealing, and all kinds of other “disruptive” tactics is actively encouraged and cheered on. This is while claiming to be altruistic too.
The public is growing a strong deep hatred of sv, whose only response seems to be calling everyone poor and laughing. It is sad, because I still think technology is a force for good.
this is an oddly dismissive comment that says more about the commenter then what is commented on.
generating an ai image is vastly more costly than loading a webpage…but still not that costly compared to most other things.
this is depressing in the same way content slop or fyp feeds are fun.
if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as they have to wait for the dopamine hit.
"if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as "
???
You mean to imply there's something 'more authentic' about paying $5 for a random Philippino guy to use Photoshop to mix-up some family photos with sticker overlays?
What are you even talking about?
On what level is that either more authentic, better for the environment, more novel ... of frankly better in any way?
That is 'not even an argument' - and so you're making my point for me:
People can now make images.
It's mostly for fun, some of it will be used professional, some Tweets will be a bit more visual - but that's it.
It's not going to change that much, and it's generally better on the whole for people to be able to create what they want.
People are putting this out of proportion.
Maybe I'm too old, but I've been around - this is not a big deal in the grand scheme.
>if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as they have to wait for the dopamine hit.
Or, y'know, learn how to draw, or accept that it's not exactly going to be Chuck Jones caliber stuff.
Idk I find it almost painful how obvious it is to the point of borderline embarrassment.
It is like when MUI/bootstrap/tailwind came out and made it increasingly easier for no design chop folks to press a button and get a decent design going. It is like watching a kid in a candy shop when systems engineers can vibe up a webapp without having to touch html/css/js.
Only recently came across this guy and if u ignore the standard social media hyper hype hype he has, I dont think he is wrong even his 2024 predictions.
US has 1.5x the money supply since Covid. This means everything has to go up 1.5x to reach the same parity from before. eg inflation. All corporate earnings are going to inflate as 1b yesterday is 1.5b today.
There is no whete for these mega corps to go. They dont know how to grow. meta becoming well meta with the vr crap is case and point. meta blowing billions on a few hyped AI people is the nail.
Other than cloud, microsft/google aimt doing anything. xbox? nope, hardware? nah. It is all attention economy or selling the pick axes for it.
the only mega corp that still seems to be moving the needle is apple which i think speaks volumes.
Eds point is that AI tam or expectations are insane full stop and he admits coding has a use just not as big of a tam. Gen ai in art, music, etc did not take off at all esp compared to code. this makes sense, no one pays an artist 500k/year. their time is worth little compared to coding.
Where he is wrong tho is that this is not new. there is always a hype cycle of nonsense that screws the little people. what is new is the level of polarization. it feels like ai psychosis right now in ways that remind me of crypto but worse because ai is actually useful so people are even more insufferable.
as others have pointed out, the reality is not this. id go further and say almost all comments are evil.
Excuse me if I am harsh, read the damn code. If you do not understand the language, that is a skill issue. If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that. Professional engineering isnt an intro to databases class.
I am excusing language conventions which may have comments as part of its idiosyncratic nature.
"If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that."
I've worked on a lot of terrible legacy code in my career and I'm very thankful for the comments that others have left. This is becoming less necessary now that LLMs can explain a project, but comments have historically been a godsend in bad code.
No, really: comments should be telling you what the code shouldn’t or physically can’t. Code is for execution and the exact details of what and how; it has no business knowing why or why not and that’s where comments are required.
If you are only encoding intent through "self-documenting code", and not with comments, then you are purposefully not using all the tools at your disposal to encode meaning as efficiently as possible.
Imagine a complicated section of application logic. You could break it up into 5 separate functions that document their intent semantically, thus blowing up the LOC by 5x, or you could write a short comment explaining the intent in natural language. What's more effective? I'd argue it's always going to be using all the tools at your disposal when and where it makes sense to use them, whether that is comments or self-documenting code.
Not to mention complex numerical optimization code that mixes closed-form approximations and something like Newton.
Without guides as to why a particular hairy expression is a good idea as a first estimate, the code is pretty much unreadable. (E.g. is it setting derivatives to zero, using a polynomial approximation, or something else?)
To put it another way, comments are for irreducible complexity ir external systems outside your control.
I work between systems and app dev. Systems have comments more often esp in shaders but my god informing me that a variable named isActive is for if something is…active, is useless noise. Same with the majority of comments that a type system already tells you. In my career, these have been ~90% of the comments I see. Since ai, all new code it is 100%.
Most of the replies examples are a sign of bad system/code but it is not always controllable. A legacy code comment of, the api requires strings for boolean values in the form “yes” and “no”. That is useful but it is also a code smell.
A concrete example, a vendor decided to define a proto with a flattened array of objects so there are some 1800 uniquely named fields on it. In many downstream consumers, this is a real performance issue besides being confusing. A comment may be good there. The thing is, this was still solvable if up at the root of where this vendor’s hardware logs
data remapped it
to something sane so every downstream system wouldnt need a comment explaining wtf is going on.
I see comments as when you want to explicitly answer why code smells right when a reader is smelling it.
> You could break it up into 5 separate functions that document their intent semantically, thus blowing up the LOC by 5x
I do this all the time and the "blowup" is not anywhere near that bad.
> or you could write a short comment explaining the intent in natural language.
You really can't. Or rather, you aren't going to convey the information that the new function signatures convey, shorter than the signatures themselves.
> What's more effective?
In my literal dozens of years of experience, the function refactoring. You also get the benefits of less deeply nested code, and more things the compiler can check automatically.
> I'd argue it's always going to be using all the tools at your disposal when and where it makes sense to use them, whether that is comments or self-documenting code.
Sure. Comments allow you, for example, to explain the external pressures and motivations for the semantics of those smaller functions.
Yeah, I am just providing one contrived example. The cost benefit analysis won't always be so obvious as that in reality. My point was that if you're not using a blend of both comments and code semantics to explain your code, then you're leaving explanatory power on the table. It's unlikely that you're explaining the code in the most efficient manner if you're not using all the explanatory power you have available.
The code tells you what the code does. It does not explain why it is doing that, and not something else. That is, among other things, what documentation does, and that includes comments.
ram? coding instances? i suspect this is not doing any inference on the machine and i also suspect the ram use is due to a bagilion node/python processes running.
nothing like 600mb of for type check server another 500 for webpack and another 600 for the inevitable electron wrapper you didnt know about. python isnt as bad but still not great.
x requiring an account to even read content from gov officials has to be a massive insane deal breaker for anything gov official.
i hate x, not because of elon but because it is still just twitter where the format breeds the most disgusting human interactions possible. Everyone is performative in every interaction which leads to a net negative. Instragram and meta cannot even claim such a divisive crown although they win on other fronts.
No, bluesky is just yet another twitter with the same fundamental problem because the format is the issue not the politics. At least on bs i can generally read without logging in tho so it wins for me.
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